Clayce Combat 8 @blastoffblastic.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Wow, would love to vote for a major antifascist party if one existed 000
Clayce Combat 8 @blastoffblastic.bsky.social · 05/10/2026When you’re younger you have no media knowledge so that stuff hits way, way harder in the same way that ultra violence and gore is arresting on its own. 000
Clayce Combat 8 @blastoffblastic.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Family says I was terrified of the Flying Monkeys but I remember going to a Halloween birthday party that played both Nightmare on Elm Street and New Nightmare. The “he’s in the real world” meta aspect one-shotted me with terror such that I thought even Scooby Doo was scary for a year afterwards. 100
Clayce Combat 8 @blastoffblastic.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Both the Shadow chanting and the multiple rock songs -including what’s straight up an anime OP -takes the always best-in-all-of-gaming OST to a new level. Like, I love Blurry and Gotta Stat Fly, but here it’s directly plot relevant as opposed to a single expression of Chopper liking early 00s rock. 000
Clayce Combat 8 @blastoffblastic.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I love Wardog but it’s remarkable how much more character Joker flight manages to express in just a few episodes. Everything about Tasha being an incredible stunt pilot but is unwilling to take a life and is shocked at how violent the first Shadow showdown is rules. 100
Clayce Combat 8 @blastoffblastic.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Ace Combat 8 is everything I could have hoped for. 100
Clayce Combat 8 @blastoffblastic.bsky.social · 02/10/2026But the real thing to call out is what may be the most delayed post-exit monster scare I’ve *ever* seen for a house. Fantastic stuff. 000
Clayce Combat 8 @blastoffblastic.bsky.social · 02/10/2026HHN Posting - Alien Abduction - what could have been a 10/10 house let down by an over reliance on silhouette projection gore kills and a pretty bad monster design. Fun bits with an abandoned kitchen and how unsparing the attack is - even the goat, even the dog dragged up the wall, leaving tracks. 100
Clayce Combat 8 @blastoffblastic.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Shame the entire series is evil, the company is evil, the company that owns that company is evil 000
Clayce Combat 8 @blastoffblastic.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I think the last Good CoD was Infinite Warfare - a Gundam game with genuinely incredibly Starfighter controls and my platonic ideal of a Star Wars game where you transition from fighter to boarding action - but I do like the idea of the Social Stealth levels in Cold War and Vanguard. 100
Clayce Combat 8 @blastoffblastic.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I think the only worthwhile bit in all three of those games is the single beat where Lieutenant Mercenary Smugface Betrayal’s name goes from green to red when he actually does betray you in real time. It’s no “one less loose end,” but it is Cute. 100
Clayce Combat 8 @blastoffblastic.bsky.social · 02/10/2026remember when they set up Zakhaev as the Joker sting at the end of nuMW1 and then killed him and his stupid son off in warzone lmao 100
Clayce Combat 8 @blastoffblastic.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Just getting assassinated in an office a game later compared to what may be a top three death of all time/marriage of gameplay mechanics to story climax, really emblematic of how nuMW wants to point at Guys You Remember without doing anything interesting with them 100
Clayce Combat 8 @blastoffblastic.bsky.social · 02/10/2026It’s really funny how bad the Modern Warfare reboot campaigns are for how incredible the meta casting of Glenn Morshower as General Shepherd is. Wish they did anything with him! 100
Clayce Combat 8 @blastoffblastic.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Love any ride queue that makes extensive use of Glenn Morshower. 000
Clayce Combat 8 @blastoffblastic.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The final few screens are all time great stuff. Love the empty resolution of Generic City USA’s top floor of a half built skyscraper, love Megatron aurafarming, love Optimus managing to (almost) die in even a five minute ride, love the way they do the two story fall payoff. 100
Clayce Combat 8 @blastoffblastic.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Adore that 90% of the dialogue is Evac shouting the names of the characters as though show up like pokemon or dinosaurs 100
Clayce Combat 8 @blastoffblastic.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Quite possibly the best synergy between source material - Bayverse - and Being a Theme Park Ride, especially a screen ride. 100
Clayce Combat 8 @blastoffblastic.bsky.social · 02/10/2026HHN Posting - caught up with my close personal friend Optimus Prime who looked me in the eye and told me that he was proud of me and that my bravery saved the planet. 100
Clayce Combat 8 @blastoffblastic.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The lines are starting to get too long and my back is starting to hurt, so I’m weighing Alien Abduction and Evil Dead Burn or going home to go place Ace Combat 8 early. 000
Clayce Combat 8 @blastoffblastic.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Spiritually Resident Evil Outbreak File 2. 100
Clayce Combat 8 @blastoffblastic.bsky.social · 02/10/2026HHN Posting - Madlands Caged Cannibals - very solid costume and set design, a fantastic giant rhino mech head, but boy did I not need the shit smell room or a dozen silhouette projection kills. Wonderful verticality! 100
Clayce Combat 8 @blastoffblastic.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Chris Franklin is pretty spot on in comparing this to The Wyatt Sicks house from lack year, where this goes out of its way to end its elegy on a heartwarming note. 000
Clayce Combat 8 @blastoffblastic.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I will never ever be able to get past the fact that the sex cult leader lady *doesn’t shower* 010
Clayce Combat 8 @blastoffblastic.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Really appreciate the upscale bathroom trailers they’ve stuck backstage since they’ve moved the majority of the New York/Production Central queues and staging to the left of the warehouses. 100
Clayce Combat 8 @blastoffblastic.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Kinda insane queue layout though, having a full warehouse and then running around the entirety of Madlands’ line. 100
Clayce Combat 8 @blastoffblastic.bsky.social · 01/10/2026HHN Posting - Ozzy Osbourne - not really that scary but undeniable from a production design and budget standpoint. Highlight ironically goes to the normal black shirt team members just head banging and singing in the Crazy Train section. Really touching on ending on this one as well. 100
Clayce Combat 8 @blastoffblastic.bsky.social · 01/10/2026The Fast and Furious Supercharged queue only gets funnier for its HHN use now that the (awful) ride is closed. 000
Clayce Combat 8 @blastoffblastic.bsky.social · 01/10/2026HHN Posting - Cybergoria: fantastic house. Great premise, godtier gore, wonderful use of “outside,” a Silent Hill tier giant head of gore monster design towards the end. Platonic ideal of an original house. The robot pleading with you not to leave the bunker into the outside world will stick with me 100
Clayce Combat 8 @blastoffblastic.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Another trend I’m not a fan of: pushing character deaths that are gory or require a lot of actors to silhouette screens in place of a physical effect. It usually looks cheap and pulls me out of the house! 000
Clayce Combat 8 @blastoffblastic.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Was one of the first in right as the house opened so I did get a really good scare actor pacing. I doubt it’ll hold for the rest of the night as the park reopens but I haven’t had this much luck, well, ever in houses. 100
Clayce Combat 8 @blastoffblastic.bsky.social · 01/10/2026HHN Posting - Sinners: kinda a case study in how having very little to adapt affects a house: every room is huge and semi-empty to fill the space of the tent. 100
Reposted by Clayce Combat 8Redborrow - COMMS OPEN @redborrow.bsky.social · 01/10/2026My piece for the fanzine, check out the rest of the zine too! 13411183
Clayce Combat 8 @blastoffblastic.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Something else - the music blaring outside outside the house reminds me that this sort of score basically died in the late oughts. 000
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Clayce Combat 8 @blastoffblastic.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I think the funniest HHN shift change I ever saw was the 2015 AvP house - most of the scare actors being Predators meant that with brown robes it looked like a collection of Wookie Jedi trying to go undercover. 000
Clayce Combat 8 @blastoffblastic.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Also: we’re just not doing house facades at all huh 100
Clayce Combat 8 @blastoffblastic.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Loved the single leviathan project, but there’s both great gore-on-wall work and centerpiece dummy diorama that really makes stranger thing’s dummies (outside of perhaps the breaking demogorgon) look pretty bad. 100
Clayce Combat 8 @blastoffblastic.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Some fantastic podium Pinhead costumes which get very funny in comparison to the way cheaper scare closet pinheads that are farting about in the back third 100
Clayce Combat 8 @blastoffblastic.bsky.social · 01/10/2026HHN Posting: Hellraiser - fantastic no-brakes house with Cenobites coming out of the woodwork, but the real star is the tasteful asscrack cleavage 100
Clayce Combat 8 @blastoffblastic.bsky.social · 01/10/2026New to HHN this year: Giant airconditioner blowers stationed along outside queues, but especially attached to giant canvas tubes suspended over the lines that are perforated to make a temporary HVAc vent layout. 000
Clayce Combat 8 @blastoffblastic.bsky.social · 01/10/2026A top five all time feeling: walking into the AC of an HHN house entrance after an house in the queue 000
Clayce Combat 8 @blastoffblastic.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I will give the queue credit for being indoors even if the screens were playing some sort of lifelessly narrated contextless YA horror prose with paragraphs up on screen at a time. 000
Clayce Combat 8 @blastoffblastic.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Much like the series, if you account for cumulative runtime, the house also shits the bed halfway through, prioritizing both hero characters and Vecna over the pipe hitting demogorgons. 100
Clayce Combat 8 @blastoffblastic.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I’m not generally dismissive of the show, which I feel was solid through season four before hitting the biggest wall I’d ever seen in season five. 100
Clayce Combat 8 @blastoffblastic.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I’ve always found Stranger Things to be the worst of the “this is following an IP plot to the exclusion of actually being scary” house series (compared to the generally excellent Halloween houses) 100
Clayce Combat 8 @blastoffblastic.bsky.social · 01/10/2026That said, I got hit really good by an aggressive string of Demogorgon actors getting their money’s worth sprinting back and forth. Never have that luck! 100
Clayce Combat 8 @blastoffblastic.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Kinda has the problem the AvP house (in addition to the hero jumpscare problem) and the Freddy vs Jason house has in that there’s one really good design and one really dorky design and unfortaurnely the Vecna scare costume just Doesn’t Work. 100
